Yerr. So last night/this morning I had a dream. It was very...
strange, as dreams tend to be I guess. Like trying to hold a fine sand in your hands, my memory of the entire sequence has slowly slipped my grasp, but I do remember one distinct part.
I'm standing in front of a mirror, and I've just taken a nice shower. I'm standing real close to it, close enough to see each strand of hair. It looks like each hair is a strange sort of dreadlock, almost like a fern leaf. Whatever. I'm also wearing a hat. It's a mixture of top hat, bowler, and cowboy.
Nadia is behind me, and she says "Why are you wearing a beanie?" I look back in the mirror, thinking, wtf, that's not a beanie, and now the hat is around my neck, with my head up through the top of the hat. The weird part was that my neck was the normal length through/above the hat, so I looked like a giraffe of sorts. The hat still felt like it was on my head.
I shared it with Nadia on the way to work today and she nearly drove us off the road in laughter. (protip: don't tell jokes to a driver who's knees get weak when they laugh, especially when you're in the car with them.)
I've recently added a bunch of new images to
my Melbourne collection, go take a look!
Full screen sitback is pretty sweet way to expeeeerience them too

I've played a bunch of new games recently.
Dirt 2 is one slick production. The driving physics take a while to get used to though, especially since I'm used to arcade racers. The licenced driver voices also get reaaaally old after a while, but being able to choose 'captain danger' from a list of nicknames is kinda funny for a few minutes (they'll say things like 'HEY... [
captain danger] ...nice race just now!'
)
Overall though, it's pretty fun. VERY satisfying to nail a race/course that you've been screwing up for the last 20 minutes
Modern Warfare 2 is a tricky one. While the single player is balls to the wall action, I finished it in around four and half hours. That in itself isn't such a big deal, but the story, JEEEZUS, the story is
bonkers. As in crazy. And not crazy as in good, crazy as in
fucking crazy. As in,
bad. The game has 'moments' that are great... but taken as a whole, it's like you just watched a really bad disjointed action movie. But like I said, it's action all the way, so when you're playing it, as far as gameplay goes, it doesn't matter all that much.
The multiplayer feels like an evolution of the last game, which, if you enjoyed it, is a good thing. Like before, a lot of the weapons will be borderline useless unless you play in Hardcore, and there is that element of grinding to get the next unlock. The level design is also a lot more open, with all but one of them being well designed.
The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, the first DLC for
Borderlands is pretty freakin' sweet. The same way The Lost and the Damned condensed all the good of GTAIV minus the boring bits, Zombie Island does the same for, err, Borderlands. If you enjoyed Borderlands, you'll love it; it's a no-brainer (hnyuk hnyuk hnyuk!)
Somewhere amongst all that I also downloaded The Ballad of Gay Tony, the second episode for GTAIV. So far it's pretty good, but it hasn't sucked me in like TLATD did, so I'm not that far into it.